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The Cure for Crazy


3 John (ESV)
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 



God loves you no matter how you feel about Him.  





Psalm 35:27 (ESV)
27 Let those who delight in my righteousness


    shout for joy and be glad
    and say evermore (continuously),


“Great is the Lord,


    who delights in the welfare of his servant!”


The god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) is trying to convince you that God does not care about you. 




God wants us to succeed.  




Acts 20:35 (ESV)

... remember the words of the Lord Jesus, 


how he himself said, 


‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”


You have to have something in order to share it. 


Psalm 1 (ESV)

Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;



We don't want to subject ourselves to ungodly talk. 



We must examine how other people influence us for good or bad. 


  

Psalm 1 (ESV)

2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,


    and on his law he meditates day and night (continually).


It is God's will for us to meditate all the time on what He says.  The outcome of doing this is success.
  


If you don't believe God wants you to succeed, then do you believe it's God's will for you to meditate in God's word day and night?  It's connected.   


We do think on something day and night. It can be spiritual things or physical things.  We are to be thinking upon God's word.   


Romans 8:6(NKJV)
6 For to be carnally (physical) minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.



Psalm 1 (ESV)

3 He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water

 (uninterrupted)


that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.


In all that he does, he prospers.



If you continually tap into God's word, you have tapped into an unlimited source like a tree by a stream.




Amos 9:13  (NKJV)

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,

“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;

The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,

And all the hills shall flow with it.


If you really believed that God doesn't want you to prosper, wouldn't you be giving your extra away?


Joshua 1:5-9  (ESV)

5 No man shall be able to stand before you (Joshua)  all the days of your life.


Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. 


6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.



7 Only be strong and very courageous,


being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. 


Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 



8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, 


so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. 



If you are meditating on unforgiveness, you are not meditating on God's word day and night.




Ask yourself how each of your thoughts are effecting you.  Are they building you up or tearing you down? 




For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 



Meditating on God's word continually is verbally quoting and harmonizing Scripture very quietly to yourself. 




Sneak up on yourself to check up on your thoughts. 




When God says day and night, that means to have a practice of meditating on Scripture periodically all the time.  
    


9 Have I not commanded you? 


Be strong and courageous. 


Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” 
Ask yourself what did God say in the Bible about each situation that you face?   




Find it in God's word, and then put that word on repeat in your mouth.  
  
Keith Moore, New Life Church
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